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Posted on TU.com this evening: an article by Brendan Lyons, with work by Elizabeth Benjamin, detailing a domestic incident call last December at the residence of U.S. Rep. John Sweeney.

Sweeney’s wife, Gaia, called 911 to say her husband was “knocking her around the house” and hung up, according to a report on the Dec. 2 incident. Sweeney told a dispatcher who called back that there was no problem, and his wife got on to say she was fine, and drunk, the report states. Police went anyway, which is standard procedure. Gaia Sweeney told the officer they’d had a “verbal arguement that turned a little physical by her being grabbed around the neck and pushed around the house.” The Congressman had scratches on his face, according to the report, and his wife spent the night at a friend’s.

State Police refused for months to release the report, which we finally obtained last week and authenticated by multiple sources. The Sweeney campaign branded it “unauthentic, false and concocted.” The campaign would not address its substance, however.

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